Re: umlaut problem

[Cor Gest]

Some witty Entity named: Christian Hofer <ch_spam@gmx.de>
 has unintentionally writen somthing like:

> Hi,
> 
> my umlauts are suddenly not shown any more as umlauts, but as {"a}
> etc. I don't know what happened to my configuration, and don't know
> where to search in the manual (I tried to change the language
> environment, but that did not help).
> 
> How can I repair this?

You could put in .emacs:

;(setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix")

or in custom-set-variables '((setq default-input-method "latin-1-prefix")
then in text-mode CTRL-\  starts the input method and you will have
umlauts.



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